Thursday, June 9, 2011

Using the OmniKey CardMan 5321/5325 in BackTrack 5

Although BackTrack is great, sometimes it needs some fudging to get everything you want working correctly. Its understandable... If you want to use the OmniKey CardMan 5321 in BackTrack 5, follow these steps. I did this all in a VM.

If the output of cardselect.py looks like that (only one reader being shown), you'll have to do a little more work. The RFID interface isnt actually showing, instead its just the smartcard reader. The problem/resolution is identified in the README, but i wrote a script to speed up the process: